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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?
(a) One year.
(b) Four weeks.
(c) A month.
(d) 60 days.

2. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?
(a) They saw him shot.
(b) The camp commandant was wearing Medvedev's wool hat.
(c) They were told by the camp commandant.
(d) The camp foreman was wearing Medvedev's wool jacket.

3. What does one Eveni descendant say the Soviets did to his people?
(a) Committed genocide.
(b) Helped them become farmers.
(c) Destroyed their culture.
(d) Helped them become traders.

4. During what years had Lithuania been a free country?
(a) 1840-1858.
(b) 1918 to 1940.
(c) 1898-1935.
(d) 1920-1932.

5. What baseball player was the hero of Vadim Kilakov, the Spooner's catcher at Mendeleyev?
(a) Gary Carter.
(b) Robin Ventura.
(c) Pedro Martinez.
(d) Roger Clemens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?

2. What does Remnick compare Memorial to?

3. What happened to the Eveni once they were herded into villages by the Soviets?

4. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?

5. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?

(see the answer key)

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